Manuel Bernárdez (13 August 1867 – 1942) was a Galician-born Uruguayan diplomat, poet, journalist, and editor.

When he was six, they left Vilagarcía de Arousa, Galicia, to settle in Arapey, Uruguay; he became a naturalized Uruguayan when he reached the legal age.

In his youth, he took to prose and especially poetry, publishing his first volume (Confidencias, a una joven Amiga) when he was eighteen.

For the next thirty years, he would spend his professional life mainly in the staffs of various periodicals and newspapers at home and abroad; he would also marry Carmen Martínez-Thédy during this time (in 1894), with whom he would have four children.

In 1904 and 1905 respectively, he wrote two volumes on Argentina, in which he celebrated that nation's economic development: Viajes por la República Argentina, La nación en marcha, Jornadas del progreso Argentino, Hacia las cumbres.